Feeling The Love...The Fitted Love!

On of the things that many people love about MCN's is that they are self contained, you don't need to faff around with pins and covers, so the fact that fitted nappies need a cover is a bit of a turn off for some people...but not here.

Since fairly early in my cloth nappy journey I have felt the fitted love!

Up until recently my "fitted love" has been mostly sentimental, up until my last (biological) baby I used the old style terry squares with covers, they have served me well and I loved them.  At one point I had close to 6 dozen of them, for 2 bubs in cloth, and I still have close to 30 of them in reasonable nic sitting in a box that I can't bear the thought of throwing out or turning into rags.
Nappies with covers have been a BIG part of my 19 years of parenting and fitted nappies are just a bit reminiscent of that.

But while I knew in my head that they were more absorbent, because the whole nappy is absorbent, the littlest Rascal has not really been a heavy wetter.  AI2's have always worked well and an over stuffed pocket nappy got us through the nights.

All that has changed now though...

As bub has gotten bigger he has started leaking out of his night nappies so we had to try something new.  I was looking into fitted night nappies, but I have some gorgeous Fattycake Fitteds from Fluff E. Stuff that I thought might do the job.  So I added an extra trifold and covered them with some fleece longies from Bubba-Boo by Charnee and voila...no more leaks, and since I already had all of those things, no expense either.

But my real appreciation of the virtues of fitted has come with the littlest foster Rascal.  I mentioned in my last post that we had been blessed with a little one who's future was very much up in the air.  Well the situation has changed and he is going to be with us for at least 6 months (a huge weight off my mind for the moment at least) but OH MY LORD can that child pee.  He has outpee'd almost every AI2 and Pocket nappy that I have, and all I can say is that I'm glad I didn't get rid of most of my medium sized fitteds...they are the only thing that works!  And oh the fun I am going to have increasing my stash!!!

I am still working on finding him a night nappy, he's a skinny little bugger so I don't want anything too bulky, but he often outpees his huggies by midnight so the sooner I can get on top of it the better, but I can guarantee that when I do find the right one, it will be a fitted!
So now I not only know it in my head but I can tell you from personal experience that fitteds ROCK for a heavy wetter!  hehehe

It's been a while since I had a lot of time to sew but I am off now to attempt to make some fleece longies for him, since ours are all too big...wish me luck :D

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This Is Me!!!

I read somewhere recently that every business should have a blog, to keep their customers up to date with what's going on behind the scenes and since we ran our official opening giveaway from a blog I thought I'd give it a whirl.

So to start with, this is me :D

I've been a few things in my time...a teachers aide, therapy assistant, support worker...and going back a ways, a cleaner and a checkout chic at KFC.

Mostly I've been a foster carer and of course a Mum.
I'm also a Christian...not the kind to take my beliefs and ram them down your throat, but I do hope that those who know me can see them in my life :)

We have 5 birth children (aged 18, 8, 7, 5 and 17 months) and, at the moment, 5 foster children...An autistic 12 year old (Permanent), a sibling group aged 7, 5 and 4 (who arrived in January and will be here until at least the end of this school term) and a little boy who celebrated his first birthday last week. (he arrived at easter time and what his future holds is very much up in the air at the moment...I hope that we are a big part of his life for a very long time to come)

So what is it like at our place?

BEDLAM

Pretty much all the time!!!

And Why, you may ask, would somebody with so much going on in their lives want to try and start their own business as well?

Well the answer to that is actually in the question!

Our 12 year old foster son has been with us for over 10 years and he can be hard work.  When Lee was working I was left to cope with him and our young family by myself and for the most part I did okay, but there have been a handful of times over the years when everything went to hell in a handbasket and I had to call him to come home and give me a hand.  This of course never sat very well with his employers and didn't make for a very happy work environment for him. 

So starting our own business has given us the flexibility to manage our family and hopefully have a regular income without relying solely on centrelink.  Not only that it has given us the flexibility to be able to offer a stable home to other kids who need one.  And for us, that's what we feel that life is all about!

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